Improvement in an apparatus to cure horses of cribbing



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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCERN: 1

Be it known that I, G. W. METCALFE, of Hummelstown, in the county ofDauphin, andyS't-ate of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented an improvedInstrument to Cure Horses of (ribbing, and Sucking Wind; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof',reference being' had to the' accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecication- Figure 1 being a top or inside view of the instrument asapplied to the. throat-latch of a bridle.

Figure 2, a vertical section thereof in a plane indicated by the line :cz, g. 1.

Figure 3, aside view of the same.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

Theinstrument consists of a metal bow, A, of' about semieircular form,and of a size t nearly itthe throat of a horse. In the centre of thebow, inside, a spur, B, situated across the bow, and having two orthreesharp points, b b, projecting upward, and two Vspring;-shields, CC,secured at their outer ends ff to the ends of the A bow, and extendinginward close to the spur B, where their inner ends c c curve downward bythe side of the blade points, which are ordinarily shielded thereby, allsubstantially as represented in the drawings. The two Vends of the boware attached by two small screw-bolts, a a, and nuts, ol a7., to thethroat-latch 'D of' a bridle or halter.

habit. If Vthe bridle is taken of of the horse the instrument canVreadily be detached therefrom by taking out the two:screw-bolts a a,andI then attaching it to the halter, and vz'ee versa; or there may beone of the instru ments continually att'aehed to each. The action of thespring-shields is indicated by black and red lines in 3.

g What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,s

The combination of the bow A, spur B, and the two spring-shields C C,constructed and arranged as and for the 'purpose herein specified.

The above specication of my improved apparatus to cure horses cribbingand sucking wind signed by me this 15th day of April, 1867. i

G. W. METOALFE.

Witnesses LEVI LrrcrLe, .Licor Snorn'.

